Thursday, April 17, 2014

REVIEW - Dom Hemingway

Jude Law said in an interview recently that he only truly got into the character of Dom Hemingway when he donned the "outfit" - especially the exaggerated sideburns.

Dom is just out of a twelve year stint in jail - a sentence he took while keeping schtum about the other thieves in his safecracking gang. The ringleader owes him, big time.

That's about the size of the plot. But Dom is much larger than any plot. He's loud, abrasive, and foul-mouthed. He's got anger issues. Big ones. Throughout the movie he's bellowing, blustering, and boozing. This makes him a mostly unlikeable character, but a very watchable one. It's just a shame that was all there was to the film.

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